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Hazel Victoria Brown, nee Mack (d. 1925)

Hazel Brown, Courtland Mack’s daughter, and her husband George Brown operated the Carmacks Roadhouse, circa 1911-12.1) The Mack brothers moved the old Model Roadhouse, on the Nordenskold River, about a mile upstream to Carmacks. George and his wife ran the roadhouse and lived in a small house near the bridge.2)

Eugene Mack and and Seymour Rawlinson built Hazel Brown's cabin, near the roadhouse. Hazel Brown lived in the cabin from 1922, the year she purchased the Carmacks Roadhouse, until 1925. The Village of Carmacks now owns the Hazel Brown Cabin and stabilized the building in 1996. It is featured in a walking tour of Carmacks.3)

Hazel appeared to be in good health when she passed away during the night on 1 October 1925.4)

1)
Yukon Archives, Back and Bee family fonds 90/19 #85.
2)
Helen Brooks Coulter in conversation with Pat Ellis (MacBride Museum), 4 March 1992.
4)
Whitehorse Star (Whitehorse), 9 October 1925.
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